Pre Assessment: Respond to the prompt in your field notebooks.

• A beaver moves into the habitat pictured below. What, theoretically, happens over the next 50 years?

Objective: Describe the process of ecological succession and identify the stages.

Enduring Understandings:

• As succession occurs, the biotic community is replaced by other organisms.
• Ecosystems are in a state of constant change and communities will replace each other over time.

Lesson:

Activity 1: Notes

• Take notes on the presentations posted below:

Activity 2: Illustrate a Story about Succession

Project Learning Tree Large PreK-8 Activity Guide p. 345 "Nothing Succeeds Like Succession"

1. Read the story below. When we stop reading, draw a picture of the stage that was just described.
2. Using the vocabulary from the notes on succession, label your drawing. Be sure to add the definition or a written explanation as to why you labeled your drawing with each of the vocabulary words.
3. You will be assessed with the Lyman Hall High School Learning Expectation: Communication Rubric

Assessment:

• Field Notes (Formative)
• Bell Ringer (Formative)
• Ecological Succession Project Lyman Hall High School Learning Expectation: Communication Rubric (Summative)
• Quiz 4: Student, Key (Summative)

Additional Resources:

Kahn Academy- Succession

Establishing and Maintaining Early Successional Habitat